David Shulkin Quotes

The state must concern itself with all institutions for those with damaged minds.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

Americans with mental illness deserve our understanding and they deserve excellent medical care.

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

Public safety is too important to be left to psychiatry.

The federal government has lost its way and largely ignored the needs of people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar illness.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

All governments could do more on mental health.

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.

In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore - for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.